Can't load any PHP file or see any error in the logs using nginx and php7

Question

I've just recently installed Nginx 1.8 and PHP7 on my server trying to make it serve my application.

When I make my webroot folder index file an HTML file which just returns Hey , then I can see the page loaded with that text.

However, when I try to replace that index.html file with index.php file I just see a blank page and no errors being spat.

I tried to look into /var/log/nginx/access.log and /var/log/nginx/error.log as-well as my site error log: /var/log/nginx/my-website-error.log . Couldn't find any error there.

I tried to maybe look at the PHP7.0-FPM error log found at /var/log/php7.0-fpm.log but nothing there as-well.

I made sure to edit my /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini file and set display_erorrs = On and error_reporting=E_ALL .

I still can't see any error and I can't execute any PHP code.

My Nginx config file which passes the php execution to FPM looks like:

location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
}

Any idea what's going on?

Answer 1

Try to add fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; before including the params file. This parameter defines the script that php should execute.